Just bought my Deck this year and with Valve not offering any sort of trade-in program or self-upgrade kits at the moment, I figure a lot of owners are also asking themselves the same thing. I know that the Steam Deck 2 will eventually come at some point and my current one works perfectly fine, but the OLED screen, wifi chip, and better battery are REALLY enticing to me. Battery life especially because that is one of my biggest hangups with the first generation models.
Anyone else on the fence too?
You really got to ask yourself whether or not the “upgrades” are worth $200 - $300 for you.
Since Valve offers refurbished 512 GB models for €379, that’s the maximum street price you would achieve for your used Deck. Unless of course you find someone really ignorant and/or stupid.
A new OLED 512 would be €569 here in my country, so almost €200 difference. A 1TB OLED would be €679 here. That’s a €300 fee for the upgrades. I mean…one could also throw in an additional €79 and get TWO refurbished LCD 512GB decks…